Blog death threats spark debate — Prominent blogger Kathy Sierra has called on the blogosphere to combat the culture of abuse online. — It follows a series of death threats which have forced her to cancel a public appearance and suspend her blog. — Ms Sierra described on her blog …

Web Services Coming To Twitter — Earlier this year we talked about the usefulness of a simple command line to query multiple web services via a set syntax. Yubnub, one of the web services we discussed, does just that. Enter "Weather 90210″ into Yubnub and get the weather from Weather.com.

Twitter as a Communications Platform — Today Techcrunch reported that Twitter will be releasing extensions to their API that will allow applications to receive private messages from users. Currently the API allows you to post messages, get a list of your friends and to query the public messages …

Best Buy Acquires Speakeasy — Addition of VoIP Communications Provider Gives Small Businesses — a Single Source for All of Their Technology Needs — Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) has agreed to acquire Speakeasy, Inc., one of the largest independent broadband voice, data and IT service providers in the United States.

Yahoo to Offer a Network for Web Ads on Cellphones — Yahoo is moving to secure a position on the next Internet battleground: Web search and advertising on cellphones. — The company plans to announce on Tuesday that it is creating a mobile advertising network that will allow marketers …

John McCain's MySpace Page Hacked — Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain's staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template to create his Myspace page. The template was designed by NewsVine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here).

Walking, Talking, Searching, Finding. — Posted by Yael Shacham, Product Manager, Mobile Team — For the last few weeks, some of our users have been test-driving our new mobile search and providing us with feedback so we can make it better. Now, we've actually been using your feedback to improve our mobile search since 2001.

Bertelsmann Reaches Deal With EMI Over Napster — Bertelsmann, the German media giant that provided financial backing to Napster when it was an unauthorized file-sharing service, has agreed to settle with the last of the major record companies that had sued it for copyright infringement.

Intel modifies Wi-Fi to add mileage — BERKELEY, Calif.—Intel has come up with a form of Wi-Fi that would let a laptop in San Francisco connect to the Internet from a base station in San Jose, Calif. — And there would still be about 10 miles of wiggle room to spare.

Apple TV — System requirements: Television with component or HDMI support — At Macworld in January of this year, Apple formally announced the Apple TV (previously known as the "iTV"), an iTunes-compatible streaming media device meant to revolutionize the way we watch television.

Did Murdoch just KO Google? — When one is asked about Google's incredible success to date, and what they did so right, the obvious answer will likely involve an explanation of the brilliant technologies that make up PageRank and Adwords. — But if one looks under the hood …

Desktop Apps, reborn as hybrids — Like a cat with nine lives, the desktop once again manages to survive and extend its life. And while most of us (including yours truly) have heralded the coming wave of web-applications, some nagging practical matters are keeping the future at bay.